Great pics! Do you protect your P. bambusoides during the winter?

Thanks!
P bambusoides has never been protected. Two winters now outdoors.
All I do is put about 3 inches of mulch over the area by around last frost.

Good stuff ADam!

I managed to get one pawpaw seed to germinate so far. THey grow weird. I though I snapped off the top, as there were no immature leaves. Turns out, it sprouted some a few weeks later, and its on leaf #3!

I cant wait to see the marginal plants you guys have down there in a few months.

My pawpaw seeds appear not to have germinated... but upon further inspection at least one has sent down a taproot. Soon we shall see top growth.
I think we have 40 this year.

Some Pawpaw flowers opened up all the way today:
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Phyllostachys bambusoides,
first visible shoots. Three of them within four inches of each other. That runner is about 3/4" diameter.
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Loquat budding growth after first winter with only wind protection.
Eriobotrya japonica z7a That's just over a year old plant I never expected to make it outside (being so young and no thermal protection).
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Happy growing!

nice update.............great to see the Loquat survive. I assume all the small diameter branches died? Any tips with Loquat? I have a couple small seedlings now.

Tim, on the Loquat there were no branches to begin with. It went in the ground at ten months old. Many of the leaves blew off once I removed the wind protection in March.

any new growth points growing on the Loquat??

Tim here is a pic from yesterday of the one year old loquat i had out all winter long, about 15" tall:
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First signs of growth on pawpaw seeds after sown 6.5 months ago

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Asimina triloba planted in December 2011, now showing growth July 1 2012

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We planted our seeds, then had one pair of "juice carton pots (JCP's)" get put outdoors to naturally overwinter. Another of JCPs were indoors till first week of March. Those left outside all winter are showing growth ahead of those that were brought out to spring like conditions. All seeds were prestratified for 90 days, in the fridge in water.

Well done, Adam.

sown 6.5 months ago

Sheesh, sounds like waiting for palms to germinate.

Keep pics coming as they burst out.
Interesting that the ones outdoors started earlier.

Barb

Windy night brought us gifts from up in the pawpaw trees. Some are cracking due to dryness before falling.

SO your Pawpaw seeds take roughly 6 months usually to germinate? Thats about how long mine took. I sowed them in January, one germinated in march, and all the rest (9/10) germinated all last week!

Nice pawpaw fruit!

Yes. I sow my pawpaw seeds in october usually and they sprout around the first of July give or take a week or so.
More fruit on my 8 yr old tree than any other year this year. but they are small due to minimal water through most of the summer.
I hope the fruit can gain size now with the considerable rain we have been receiving!